Social Security explained: Are your benefits safe from DOGE?

As Social Security approaches its 90th birthday, the author of a book on the subject explains why the program is not as vulnerable as you may fear.

Like most Americans, I took Social Security for granted for most of my life. Until about 10 years ago, I carried a vague idea that the program had been promised to Moses on Mount Sinai (whaddya mean Grandpa didn’t have a Social Security number until he was 27?). Combined with that assumption was my hazy belief that its benefits would dry up by the time I reached my sixties.